Re: Legal risk of posting scientific/cultural/Nazi-sympathizing stuff on this site?

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Originally Posted by Poison

FYI not all people here identify as any kind of "nazis" (National Socialists) or "neo-nazis".

I don't really get the "connection". The type of people who make discoveries usually have more advanced vocabulary so they aren't like "f-word this and f-word that".

Anyway, personally I don't care all that much if there is a cuss word or two as long as the post isn't totally retarded, but the owner of the website has decided he doesn't want that kind of language on his site and that is that. I do think that all those "*"s left by the automatic word filter make posts look ugly and sometimes also hard to read.

Not right away. But such posts are likely to be deleted or edited (if a moderator is feeling generous with his/her time). And if you persist in creating that type of work for moderators again and again, then, eventually, pre-moderation of all posts or a ban happens.

It was just a pun on f-bomb and a-bomb, and yeah the stars do look ugly

I think Nazi started just as a German abbreviation of National Socialist (I actually don't always like the term National Socialist because the Nazis placed more importance on biological social groups than national lines in the sand. Although, some people consider a "nation" to be a people, I think the NSDAP included. Socialism as Hitler said is "the science of providing for the common weal," but I still don't always like saying as a go-to because of the connotations with Marxism.

In general though, I'll probably limit my posts to certain general or technological/cultural/advice-seeking stuff, and I'll try to stay out of everyone's hair

Re: Legal risk of posting scientific/cultural/Nazi-sympathizing stuff on this site?

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Originally Posted by New Century

It was just a pun on f-bomb and a-bomb, and yeah the stars do look ugly

I think Nazi started just as a German abbreviation of National Socialist (I actually don't always like the term National Socialist because the Nazis placed more importance on biological social groups than national lines in the sand. Although, some people consider a "nation" to be a people, I think the NSDAP included. Socialism as Hitler said is "the science of providing for the common weal," but I still don't always like saying as a go-to because of the connotations with Marxism.

In general though, I'll probably limit my posts to certain general or technological/cultural/advice-seeking stuff, and I'll try to stay out of everyone's hair

The moderation here can seem a little on the strict side but you'll learn to navigate it over time.

Regarding use of this site, your threat matrix is derived from many variables. The most important is your location. Your location makes the difference between potential imprisonment and "lesser" threats depending on the provisions for the protection of free speech in your country and any relevant "hate crime" laws. As an earlier poster commented, the risk of being doxed remains a constant.

Your safety basically all comes down to your OPSEC. Are you using a VPN that would make your use of SF non-obvious to your ISP and the authorities without specific investigation? Either way, the most important thing is not to publicly post anything that could be used to personally identify you. The information on your account should be minimal and/or false (e.g. a throwaway email address) in case of a leak (since SF is a high-priority target for a whole lot of people). And then the cardinal consideration is to just patrol your own posts and prevent the self-leakage of personal information.

Even in countries with draconian censorship policies like the UK, the overall risk to you is relatively low as long as you aren't a person of interest due to your real life activities and you aren't going full GTKRWN on the forum. SF's rules against the use of excessive racial epithets and talk of violent action etc. actually protect you. If the police in a country like the UK happen to identify an individual as an SF user, they will still probably slip by. I'm not aware of a country in which it's explicitly illegal to visit a site like SF -- not yet, anyway.

Re: Legal risk of posting scientific/cultural/Nazi-sympathizing stuff on this site?

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Originally Posted by FactsAreRacist

The moderation here can seem a little on the strict side but you'll learn to navigate it over time.

Regarding use of this site, your threat matrix is derived from many variables. The most important is your location. Your location makes the difference between potential imprisonment and "lesser" threats depending on the provisions for the protection of free speech in your country and any relevant "hate crime" laws. As an earlier poster commented, the risk of being doxed remains a constant.

Your safety basically all comes down to your OPSEC. Are you using a VPN that would make your use of SF non-obvious to your ISP and the authorities without specific investigation? Either way, the most important thing is not to publicly post anything that could be used to personally identify you. The information on your account should be minimal and/or false (e.g. a throwaway email address) in case of a leak (since SF is a high-priority target for a whole lot of people). And then the cardinal consideration is to just patrol your own posts and prevent the self-leakage of personal information.

Even in countries with draconian censorship policies like the UK, the overall risk to you is relatively low as long as you aren't a person of interest due to your real life activities and you aren't going full GTKRWN on the forum. SF's rules against the use of excessive racial epithets and talk of violent action etc. actually protect you. If the police in a country like the UK happen to identify an individual as an SF user, they will still probably slip by. I'm not aware of a country in which it's explicitly illegal to visit a site like SF -- not yet, anyway.

Hands-down the most helpful answer by far, thanks a lot man, good to know

Re: Legal risk of posting scientific/cultural/Nazi-sympathizing stuff on this site?

If you get into trouble (pretty unlikely imho) it will from the cultural/Nazi-sympathizing stuff, since the 'Nazi science' stuff is mostly useless crankish garbage about UFOs, the non-existent 'Nazi bell' (debunked long ago right here on Sf), and so forth.